Sharon Gilmartin
Deputy Director, Safe States Alliance
2023, 2024
Sharon Gilmartin, MPH, is the Deputy Director at the Safe States Alliance and is located in Greensboro, North Carolina. Sharon joined Safe States in 2014, bringing a 15-year background in public health injury prevention, with an emphasis in injury and violence prevention. Prior to coming to Safe States, Sharon was a Traffic Safety Research and Policy Analyst with the American Automobile Association and a Research Fellow at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and her Master of Public Health in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the University of Washington in Seattle.
The Summit unites the public and private sectors, domestic and international, against hate and extremism. Researchers, activists, lawyers, technology experts, political leaders, and more come together, each bringing their unique tools to the fight. Important relationships that were established at the Summit in 2021 have carried forward into working groups with concrete deliverables for 2022 and beyond.
